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re: Blizzard removes a player from Hearthstone tourney over HK comments
Posted on 10/10/19 at 10:23 am to Kodar
Posted on 10/10/19 at 10:23 am to Kodar
quote:I'm stoked just to see what a protest with both the right and the left agreeing on something looks like in this country.
I'm excited for the first time in my life for Blizzcon (starts Nov 1) because I'm looking forward to all the Winnie the Pooh outfits running around
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Posted on 10/10/19 at 10:41 am to Drewbie
There are reports that blizz is blocking people from deleting their accounts
Posted on 10/10/19 at 10:46 am to DoUrden
Yeah they've turned off every method of account authentication. If you try to delete your account, it gets locked and then the request for deletion gets canceled.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 10:53 am to Drewbie
quote:
Yeah they've turned off every method of account authentication. If you try to delete your account, it gets locked and then the request for deletion gets canceled.
What?
That's pretty crazy..
Posted on 10/10/19 at 10:55 am to Drewbie
quote:
Yeah they've turned off every method of account authentication. If you try to delete your account, it gets locked and then the request for deletion gets canceled.
Big Pooh Bear is watching
Posted on 10/10/19 at 12:09 pm to SBvital
Activision/Blizzard is likely thinking that no matter how much huffing and puffing is done state side, that the Chinese government are still the people they can't afford to piss off. Losing x% of their US customers is preferable to them than losing the entirety of the Chinese market.
They've been painfully quiet on the subject too, probably just hoping it goes away, betting on the public's short attention span.
They've been painfully quiet on the subject too, probably just hoping it goes away, betting on the public's short attention span.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 12:36 pm to PEPE
quote:
They've been painfully quiet on the subject too, probably just hoping it goes away, betting on the public's short attention span.
This is what I meant earlier by the Blizzard leaders not having to make decisions. Sometimes it is better to just wait and see what the market tells you what to do.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 12:52 pm to PEPE
quote:Questionable decision as even if this calms down for a while, Blizzcon at the end of the month will simply re-ignite it. If they're betting on Blizzcon going smoothly, I think they are miscalculating on that.
They've been painfully quiet on the subject too, probably just hoping it goes away, betting on the public's short attention span.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 1:08 pm to PEPE
Problem is that catering to 10% of your user base has a potential of costing you a large chunk of the 70% of your core user base who make up the vast majority.
Same problem the NBA is facing right now by trying to cater to China while not upsetting their core fans in the US and Canada.
Same problem the NBA is facing right now by trying to cater to China while not upsetting their core fans in the US and Canada.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 1:10 pm to Kodar
They probably think they can eject all the troublemakers and control the media surrounding the event.
Doesn’t quite work that way in an age of streaming video.
Doesn’t quite work that way in an age of streaming video.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 2:05 pm to teke184
I just found this morning...
Activision Blizzard Seeks Chinese Approval For ‘Call Of Duty Mobile’ As It Breaks Download Records
Explains a lot really.
Activision Blizzard Seeks Chinese Approval For ‘Call Of Duty Mobile’ As It Breaks Download Records
Explains a lot really.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 2:36 pm to Scruffy
Posted on 10/10/19 at 3:01 pm to Drewbie
They are cosplaying Mei at the protests in HK.
This post was edited on 10/10/19 at 3:03 pm
Posted on 10/10/19 at 3:34 pm to Scruffy
quote:
What will Blizzard do? They can’t exactly come out and disavow the use of their characters in HK protests.
Watch them remove Mei from the game completely.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 3:49 pm to imjustafatkid
Posted on 10/10/19 at 3:57 pm to imjustafatkid
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Watch them remove Mei from the game completely.
That would be well received tbh.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 3:58 pm to WeBleedCrimson
For those interested, here is what the end of year report looked like for 2018.
So China, Japan, and Korea combined barely crested a billion in revenue while the Americas brought in nearly 3.9 billion and EU 2.6 billion.
The more I think about it the more I feel like this is strictly about the Diablo Immortal release and less about overall long term revenue. Domestic feedback has already all but assured Blizzard it's going to flop here. They are 100% banking on China making Immortal not a complete waste of money and resources.
So China, Japan, and Korea combined barely crested a billion in revenue while the Americas brought in nearly 3.9 billion and EU 2.6 billion.
The more I think about it the more I feel like this is strictly about the Diablo Immortal release and less about overall long term revenue. Domestic feedback has already all but assured Blizzard it's going to flop here. They are 100% banking on China making Immortal not a complete waste of money and resources.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 4:12 pm to Drewbie
If they do that, you immediately tell the bank about it and they flag any transaction to Blizzard as fraudulent. Enough of that happens and banks can cut the company off.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 4:55 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
If you remove the asshat Asmongold from the mix the WoW numbers for Twitch have really dropped off the last couple of days.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 5:10 pm to DoUrden
That's mostly because most of the bigger streamers have started to stream other stuff on the side while they wait for the next phase. All the dorks that rushed to the end are sitting and waiting for new content like losers. It'll go right back up next phase and with the addition of PvP next phase I think the floor will be higher. Right now there's not even an honor system.
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